I’m an art historian studying intersections between performance art and lens-based media. I specialise in postwar US art.
My PhD—completed in 2022 at the University of St Andrews—explored how African American artists active since the late 1960s have mobilised performance for the camera to expose the limits of visual performativity, and how they challenged the prevalent interpretations of embodied performance as an introspective, autobiographical mode of art making. I am currently working on a book based on my doctoral research.
My new research looks at recent artist-led group performances, organised outside of the museum, across the United States. I’m especially interested in reenactments, site-specific group performances, as well as the images such projects generate, as forms of commemoration, and as interventions into the American monumental landscape.
